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Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Edmonton, N.9.
Telephone No: EDMonton 3000
Ext. 16.
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COUNCILLORS
OF THE BOROUGH OF EDMONTON
Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The health of Edmonton improved somewhat during 1960. The infant
mortality rate remained about the same but there was an improvement in neonatal
mortality and peri-natal mortality. The known incidence of pulmonary
tuberculosis fell sharply and it will be difficult to improve on this for
some years to come. The general death rate fell and the birth rate rose.
There was a reduction in the number of deaths of cancer of the stomach but
this was balanced by an increase in the number of deaths from cancer of the
lung. There was, however, a marked decrease in deaths of other forms of
cancer, if Leukaemia be excluded. Deaths from Leukaemia rose slightly
indicating an increase in the risk from radiation round about 1952/53.
Influenza was not a serious problem and deaths from respiratory disease
were somewhat reduced.
A study of the Staff List on the opposite page will show that there
was a full staff of Public Health Inspectors up till the 30th of September.
The Smoke Control Area programme was therefore able to go forward at a faster
pace and about 2,000 houses a year will be dealt with from now on. Smaller
slum clearance areas were represented, but, since 390 houses were represented
in 1959, the average of 200 houses per year has been maintained.
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